MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16922, 30 July 1915, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH.

Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., presided yesterday at the sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Christchurch.

j Mary Johnston, alias Maggie Moore, M'lntosh, Edwards and Wilson, a comparatively young woman, with nity-two previous convictions, pleaded guilty to a charge that she was a rogue and a vagabond. She elected to go to the Salvation Army Home for six months, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. A charge against Samuel Sandiord of breaking his prohibition order was withdrawn by the police, who stated that the cost of bringing the man from the backblocks of the .North Island, where ho was at present, would be £2O. Judgment by default was given for the plaintiffs in the following cases, with costs: —Brown and Wynn-Williams v. Albert Coombs, £22; James Shand and' Co. v. Mervyn W. Stevenson, £4 10s; N.Z. Automobiles, Ltd., v. Samuel Girchvood, £8 6's 6d; Charles Philpott and Co. v. G. H. Robinson, £6 0s lid ; William Barrett v. H. Glasson, £4 2s 6d; W. Strange and Co. v. Reginald N. Heppell, £5 12s 6d; Adams, Ltd., v King Country Motor Co., £l4 8s 9(1. S. C. Thompson applied for a rehearing of the case of F. K. Hunt v. S. C. Thompson, a fencing case in which judgment had been given for the plaintiff for £l7 1/6. The grounds of the application were that evidence was now available to show that the charge for fencing was exorbitant. The Magistrate, in dismissing the application, said that the plaintiff had given precise details of the fencing, and the defendant could have brought any evidence at the hearing. The ground stated was no ground whatever, and if it were there would be no finality to any case. In the case of J. R. Wallace (Mr Hunt) v. R. O. Duncan (Mr Cassidy), a claim and counter-claim for fencing, work and labour, the Magistrate gave judgment for £lfts 6s 4d on the main claim and £2l 10s on the counter-claim, leaving a balance of £B3 16s 4d in Wallace's favour. j LYTTELTON - .

I Captain R. Hatchwell, J.P., and Mr L. A. Stringer, J.P., presided yesterday at the Magistrate's Court at LytteJton. j William Williams, a seaman on board i the Somerset, on a charge of being | absent from the ship without leave, was j convicted and discharged.

I RANGIORA. Mr T. A. B. Br.iley, S.M., and Mr W. G. Whiteside, J. P., pros ded at a special sitting of the Rangiora Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon to continue the case of Edward F. Kevern (Mr Conlan) v. James Barclay (Mr Van Asch) partly heard on Tuesday's sitting. The action was one in! which plaintiff, a farmer at _Sefton, sought to recover the sum of £SO from/ defendant, a storekeeper at Sefton, for damage alleged to have been sustained through loss of feed to his dairycows through being supplied by defendant with turnip seed instead of rape seed as ordered, the turnips being useless for feeding dairy cows in milk. The defenco was that the case did not call for special damages, evidence being given by practical farmers and graziers that the turnip crop would be more valuable tlian a rape crop for feed purposes. After counsel's address the Bench reserved judgment.